Kicking out a million long term immigrants.

Last month, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status, as the humanitarian program is known, and now industries are bracing for the loss of vital workers.

These workers are among more than one million people who have been allowed to live and work in the United States under a decades-old humanitarian program, and who now face the prospect of deportation.

State and local leaders are echoing those concerns. Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio, a Republican, has called ending T.P.S. for Haitians a “mistake” and predicted a steep economic toll for his state. In South Florida, home to the largest Haitian population, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and Commissioner Marleine Bastien of Miami-Dade County, along with business leaders, gathered on Wednesday to address the potential fallout.

“Ending T.P.S. doesn’t save American money,” Ms. Bastien said during a news conference. “Ending T.P.S. costs America money.”

But on Wednesday afternoon, Senator Eric Schmitt, Republican of Missouri, blocked a fast-track attempt by congressional Democrats to extend T.P.S. for Haitians and criticized the program for becoming all but permanent. “T.P.S. was created for emergencies,” Mr. Schmitt said on the Senate floor. “Democrats turned it into a one-way racket towards permanent mass migration.”

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As of last year, there were about 1.3 million people from 17 countries living with T.P.S. in the United States. The Trump administration has sought to end protections for about a million people from 13 of those countries.

I could provide editorializing here but that’s not what we do. We observe from within the cage and we show you the contours of the cage as we see it.
There are many ways to create jobs. Sending immigrants back to their countries is one way. It’s a necessarily “uproot and move” sort of way. We have an entire policing force that has been hired to do exactly that. Then again, we have sheriffs who also do the same when they serve notices on behalf of landlords.

Here’s what I wonder: is this about jobs or race? If it was about jobs, then the question is why are we not able to create more jobs? Why are the “real” jobs - jobs in manufacturing falling? If this is about race then it fits the pattern. All except Ukraine who got an extension until October 19.
Asking a question is not the same as providing an opinion. Most of our essays are written with the present tense in mind. We provide historical context when AI provides it. I don’t. I also don’t speculate about the future. I read sometimes about things like FDR put 3M people to work just planting trees. They planted billions of trees many of them are still with us today. We could use these immigrants to provide more oxygen for all of us. Again, it’s not advice, it’s not a policy recommendation, it’s simply an observation. We should plant trees because we have a lot of forest fires.

Here’s how an editorial sounds: “it’s an utter lack and failure of their imagination to think bigger….” As I said…it sounds snobby, it reeks of upper class mannerism and from within the cage it is rather pointless. The reason I am able to see the cage so clearly is because I am in a double cage. I exist inside my mind and body yet I have given up policing them… other people allow yet other people to come and go based on their permission structure. Some overstay their permissions, others leave when it’s time. Since I am inside that cage, I can notice the contours of the System’s cage quite easily. And I can write essays and explain how and why these policies are not going to help anyone.

Here’s the chain of causality as I see it… The law TPS was approved in 1990. It was meant to provide relief for people fleeing their countries for a better life in America. Let’s be honest, that’s why they’re here, most of them. If you are a Romantic, then you’ll say they’re freedom fighters in their homelands and despotic regimes threw them out. Or they ran away from violence. I am not one of those. I suspect, that most of them came here out of a human desire to have a better life. We allowed them in, we gave them paperwork. It was only meant to be for 18 months. Although, that’s sort of an interesting permissioning structure that keeps immigration agents employed. Hey Sam, track these migrants will you? Yeah they got 18 months, after that they’ll need lawyers and extensions. They’ll stand in lines and Samantha can stamp their extension after they speak with John. We could ask them to come back and speak to Jose. Now, a few years have gone by, these folks are working hard, doing jobs and now we gotta kick ‘em out. And we have to fight the war in Iran.

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Here’s an interesting question to ponder. If Biden had not deliberately opened the borders the way he did, would Trump be President? And would these policies be acceptable? Would the Supreme Court have agreed to the request?

If you are still asking those questions Pierre, then you don't understand the System at all. Biden, Supreme Court and Trump are all in it. There is nothing that happens that is a surprise to the System. The only reason I type this stuff at all, is in the tiny possibility that some of you might still be asking the questions in the paragraph above.

Klatka to klatka. “The cage is the cage” in Polish.
Sheveluch volcano in Kamchatka, Russia could get interesting.